[windows2000] Re: PDF-readers
- From: "Sorin Srbu" <sorin.srbu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 14:57:09 +0200
Andrew M Stemen <> wrote on Tuesday, October 10, 2006 2:52 PM:
I'll look into it.
Is the plugin-disable-thingie documented on the Adobe-site then?
> While Adobe's Acrobat Reader is a bit of a PITA, the amount of resources
> that it uses (and the time it takes to launch) can be reduced
> drastically by removing plugins that are not needed. I don't have the
> site in front of me now, but about a year ago, I configured and deployed
> an installation of Acrobat Reader enterprise-wide that had most of the
> plugins missing. "Nobody" used them, they were easy to re-enable for
> anyone that might need any of them, and with them gone, it launched
> virtually instantly.
>
> YMMV...
>
> Andrew
>
> On Tue, 10 Oct 2006 10:11:50 +0200, "Sorin Srbu"
> <sorin.srbu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
>> Guys,
>>
>> What PDF readers do you know of that are free, easy-to-deploy and has a
>> small footprint?
>>
>> Acrobat Reader is a dinosaur and a PITA to deploy, while Foxit Reader has a
>> tendency to exchange letters, or drop them altogether, in articles,
>> something that is not ok when viewing scientific ones.
>>
>> Printing with Foxit is also a problem, in that it sometimes prints greek
>> letters for some text. Very weird. I've reported the problems to Foxit
>> Software, but things don't seem to happen very fast...
>>
>> TIA.
>>
>>
>> BW,
>>
>> Sorin
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